I’m an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

I've got a degree in physics, but my real passion is the history of science, and I love writing books because I want to show everybody that the history of science is the history of absolutely everything.

Publications

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Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton’s London Career

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Pandora's Breeches

Sympathetic Attractions

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